From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 18:52:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D29737B424 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 18:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e861pwl56331; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:21:58 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:21:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: BWS - Offwhite Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape drive recommendation Message-ID: <20000906112157.J88716@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from brennan@offwhite.net on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:40:12AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 5 September 2000 at 11:40:12 -0500, BWS - Offwhite wrote: > I am looking to add a tape drive to a server. I will run backups > weekly and It hink 20gigs will be enough for the job. I am look at > a price range of $200 to $350 for the drive. > > Any suggestions for a good drive for FreeBSD? I don't know too many drives in this price range which will write 20 GB on a single tape. DDS-2 will do 8 GB. DDS-3 will do 24 GB, but I don't think you'll find a DDS-3 drive at that price. Alternatively, you could use Exabyte, but again you're unlikely to get a 20 GB or better drive at the prices you're looking at. > Would any SCSI tape drive work with FreeBSD? Just about any. I have some seriously ancient Exabytes (over 10 years old) which don't. It wouldn't harm to ask when you find something you like the look of. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message